RVNL sets ball rolling for Chingrighata underpass
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Kolkata: RVNL has started preparing the detailed project report for the three-way underpass at Chingrighata after it got a nod from the KMC.
Police had told RVNL traffic blocks at Chingrighata for two weekend nights to bridge the last 366m of the viaduct gap of the Orange Line's Ruby-Sector V section would be granted only after the underpass was built.
The implementing agency of the 29km New Garia-Airport Metro corridor is trying to reason that the underpass would take time to be built and involve complex traffic curbs at the crossing.
The traffic department noted the ground reality in a compiled 'minutes' of an inspection by police and RVNL engineers: "The construction of the underpass may start in Oct-Nov... Completion is estimated to take six months..."
RVNL has been seeking six nights' traffic block at Chingrighata to launch two spans over the crossing to bridge the viaduct gap.
Once this 366m work is done, the Orange Line can be extended from Ruby to Sector V. But with the traffic department refusing to hand over the site, girder-launching at Chingrighata has been stalled since Feb 2. Several meetings and inspections later, police told RVNL the underpass was their biggest priority for pedestrian safety at Chingrighata.
TOI reported on Feb 15 that the extension of Orange Line till Sector V would be stalled till the work on the Chingrighata underpass got underway. Metro is pleading with the traffic department to reconsider its stand. "The underpass will take around a year. Launching spans over Chingrighata can be done in six nights, over two weekends," a railway official said.
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